Thoughts on the Present Position of Protestantism

by Adolf von Harnack

  • Year 1896
  • Type Essay
  • Genre ecclesiology
  • Tradition Lutheran
  • Original language German

For For readers of nineteenth-century Protestant history and liberal theology; dated in its circumstances and not a general introduction.

Should I read this?

For the general reader
2 of 5 worth a look
For the researcher
3 of 5 worth your time
Difficulty
3 of 5 demanding

A short lecture on the state and principle of Protestantism in the Germany of the 1890s.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 2 of 5
  • Scriptural 1 of 5
  • Experiential 0 of 5
  • Sociological 4 of 5
  • Historical 3 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

A lecture on the condition of Protestantism, published in 1896 and translated into English by Thomas Bailey Saunders as Thoughts on the Present Position of Protestantism (1899). Its subject is the state of German Protestantism in the 1890s. It belongs with the other short public lectures of Harnack that Saunders translated; its contents have not been checked in detail for this entry.

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